MINI-INETD(1)

🦋 mini-inetd(1) — the little connection dispatcher that could 💖

okay so bestie, gather round, because we're talking about mini-inetd from the General Commands Manual, section 1 — aka the command-line girlies' section. she's small, she's a TCP/IP connection dispatcher, and she's literally the bouncer at the club door of your ports. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

mini-inetd — a small TCP/IP connection dispatcher 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mini-inetd [-d] [-m maxconnections] [localaddr:]port program [argv0 argv1 ...]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the vibe: mini-inetd listens for TCP/IP connections on port. 🫶

and for each connection — like, every single one, no skips — program gets started with its standard input and its standard output connected straight to the socket. it's giving "your program thinks it's talking to a terminal but actually it's talking to the internet." main character energy fr fr. 😭

if localaddr is given, mini-inetd only listens for connections on the interface specified by that hostname or IP address. and if you don't give one? she listens to all IP interfaces on the machine. all of them. every single one. no cap. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -d — Debug... 👀 (that's the whole description, bestie, she's mysterious like that)
• -m maxconnections — exit after maxconnections connections has been handled. so like, she counts, and when the count hits the limit she's out. bye. 🚪✨

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• tcpconnect(1)
• tcplisten(1)
• inetd(1m)

go read those too, iykyk 🧚

✨ BUGS ✨

⚠️ okay so this is the part where we hold hands: the names of the options are not yet finalized, and may change at a future release. so if you're out here hardcoding flags into your scripts like it's forever... she might ghost you. 💀 just be aware.

🌈 and that's the whole page 🌈

this little icon was written up back on 1997 April 13, and it comes to you from the General Commands Manual — so yeah, she's been serving cunt since the 90s and she's still out here dispatching connections. periodt. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸🫶